Tom Lane <tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Tom Davies <tgdavies@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > > On 16/01/2008, at 2:41 AM, Tom Lane wrote: > >> You definitely should not expect to convert the names to integers. > > > Presumably you can convert them to 96 bit integers? i.e. they are > > always strings of hex characters? > > You could, but in most scripting languages I can think of, it'd be > a lot easier just to treat them as strings. yeah, I tried to convert the whole filename into an integer, and then compare it, but the int was too large then, therefore I only took the last 9 hex digits and converted these. Anybody knows in which source file the filename is generated, then I can take a look by myself and get all the details how it is done? thanks for your insights Sebastian ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly